Dixon Tops Saturday's Soggy Practice Session

Despite threatening skies, the IZOD IndyCar practice session on Saturday morning went off without any weather related hitches, though there was enough moisture remaining on the track to require the use of rain tires.

Josef Newgarden, who had zero track time in practice 2 on Friday, was first to hit the track this morning. He would spin a few laps into his run, screeching to a halt the wrong way around coming out of turn 10. Though he didn't hit anything, the red flag did wave while the Safety team restarted and righted him.

The other incident of note was Ryan Hunter-Reay, who came to a stop at Turn 8, and also brought out the red flag.

Of note, several cars waited until very late in the session to go out, and by then the track was mostly dry, so every one was able to fire off some laps in "anger" prior to this afternoon's qualifying rounds.

As luck would have it, Dixon, the last driver to run laps, set the fastest time in the session after only six.

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